| | | "Our money is better spent investing directly in our future: functioning mass transit, thriving schools, affordable housing." | | If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser. | | | | |  | | | | Why Amazon Isn't Coming to Queens — And Why Some New Yorkers Are Thrilled | | | | Amazon had said its plan would bring 25,000 jobs to Long Island City and $2.5 billion in investment. And Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio enthusiastically encouraged the development, reportedly offering up to $3 billion in tax incentives to the tech company. But the New Yorkers who have been pushing back against the so-called HQ2 since it was announced last year are likely thrilled about today's about-face. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Men Like Ryan Adams Prey on Young Female Dreams | | | | Something you cannot escape when listening to the accounts of women like those who've accused men like Adams and R.Kelly, is how interactions with these men—usually but not always older and certainly more powerful—stifle their ability to dream. Save for Aaliyah, none of the women who revealed abuse to Lifetime have gone on to pursue music, despite that being the very reason for their original interactions with Kelly. Ava, one of Adams's accusers, has not played a single gig since her relationship with Adams ended. It "just totally put me off to the whole idea" of being an artist, she told The New York Times. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | Alex Jones Will Have to Face the Sandy Hook Parents Whose Children He Tried to Erase | | | | Valentine's Day, like most any other day in this country, now doubles as the anniversary of an American mass murder. One year ago today, the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, went to school and some didn't come home. "I am forever haunted by my memory of that morning, rushing my kids out the door rather than getting one last minute," Frank Guttenberg, father to murdered Parkland student Jaime, said on Twitter this morning. "Did I say I love you?" There is a sickening, almost debilitating, injustice to it all. It is cruel and unfair to the point of the unbearable. Why does a grieving father feel it necessary to declare his daughter existed? That there is a grave that holds her that he can visit? The answer is Alex Jones. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | The Parkland Students Breathed Life Into the Battle Against Gun Death | | | | David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, and their classmates fought against the anesthetic of historical amnesia and, so far, they've beaten it to the ground. They have stood in against the anesthetic balm of thoughts-and-prayers. They have taken boundless ridicule about being so young and earnest and properly enraged. They have organized a network of survivors and a fellowship of grieving parents and siblings. And they have changed the conversation in this country by laying the bleeding bodies of their classmates across the nation's heart. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | | How Gun Laws—and Gun Norms—Have Changed Since the Parkland Shooting | | | | Days after a mass shooting left 17 dead at her high school, Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma González declared at a gun control rally: "We are going to be the kids you read about in textbooks. Not because we're going to be another statistic about mass shooting in America, but because we are going to be the last mass shooting. Just like Tinker v. Des Moines, we are going to change the law." Today marks one year since the tragedy, and there have been dozens more mass shootings on U.S. soil. But the laws are slowly changing, too. Read More | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Follow Us | | | | | | | | Unsubscribe Privacy Notice | | | esquire.com
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